Learning Leadership, Teaching Whiteness

This live briefing is focused on guiding leadership educators through an exploration of and reflection on leadership education tools, practices, and theories.

First, presenters will share background information about leadership education programs and leadership educators-- demographics of leadership educators, common leadership theories, and pedagogies to provide context about the field more widely. Then, the presenters will provide a short summary of Critical Race Theory, the theoretical framework that guides the webinar presentation. In detailing CRT, the presenters will share several examples of how they have applied CRT tenets to critically analyze common leadership theories and leadership education practices, in search of centering attention to power and racialization.Finally, presenters will walk attendees through a guided critical reflection, encouraging leadership educators to reflect on their tools, models, and practices and the ways that race/racism/racialization are or are not centered.

By offering critical reflexivity as a tool for practice, the presenters will encourage attendees to engage in similar practices with their colleagues and to allow attendees to share resources, ideas, and questions with one another. Overall, this live briefing seeks to engage leadership educators in a time of critical reflection in order to identify practices that maintain whiteness within leadership education.

Learning Outcomes

By participating in this session, attendees will be able to:

• critically reflect on the leadership tools they use through a CRT lens;
• describe the normalized structures and practices in leadership education that reinforce whiteness; and
• develop tools and questions for future reflection and development of critical leadership education practices.

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